Mieczysław Lubelski
Polish monumental sculptor (1886–1965) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mieczysław Jan Ireneusz Lubelski (30 December 1886 – 29 April 1965) was a Polish monumental sculptor and ceramicist. In Poland he was part of the Poznań-based art movement, Świt, (Dawn). He was the author of many public sculptures and monuments, as well as of Religious art in several Polish cities, many of which did not survive the war. A Holocaust survivor, he was hidden by Catholic clergy in Kielce, took part in the Warsaw Uprising and after captivity in a German POW camp, resumed the final years of his career in the United Kingdom. After World War II he became especially known for the Polish Air Force Memorial in Northolt,[1] and for reinstating some of his shattered work in Communist Poland. He also took on interior ceramic designs for exiled Poles in London.[2][3]